songful
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of songful
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at song, -ful
Example Sentences
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But the sublimity of Soper’s songful material needs no great explication — just check out her setting of Yeats’s “For Anne Gregory” in “Fragments.”
From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2022
Mr. Peacock’s “raw charisma and fiery temperament could almost match Ayler in songful intensity,” pianist Ethan Iverson wrote in Jazz Times magazine in April.
From Washington Post • Sep. 9, 2020
In general, the concerto was given an eloquent dark beauty by Hadelich, his tone thickly dusky, his virtuosity so secure that it could be beside the songful point.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 26, 2018
The jaunty, songful theme that opens the movie sets a mood that Caine catches breezily—even if the character of Alfie himself is sordid and sleazy in a way that the music doesn’t at all imply.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 1, 2017
He was too all-fired songful to be natu’al.
From Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher by Gates, Eleanor
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